Dorm rooms in Bali and Jakarta

Jakarta doesn't seem to have Dorm room options... Well, Manila is also not a good place to hunt for hostel with dorm rooms. It's not even a good city to look for hostels. Now is Jakarta like Manila, in terms of hostel availability. I prefer those YHA hostels or anything that looks traveler friendly.

Now, I've been told that Bali has lots of cheap accommodations. Hostelworld seem to have done some changes with the site. I need a new site to look for accommodations, if I still find it inconvenient to do my searches.

Well Cambodia has 1-3 dollar dorms. Does Bali have that option??? Sihanoukville and Siem Reap have it, but it's not online.

If you wouldn't mind giving a price range, I could try to help with your query about rooms in Jakarta. Jalan Jaksa (Jaksa Road) is the name of the street (walking distance to the/A center of the city, which would be Jalan Thamrin/Sarinah department store) where a few hostels can be found, but it's...not nearly anything like similar backpacker depots such as Khaosan Road in Bangkok. In other words, it's a bizarre mix of middle-aged white men, transvestites and rooms without windows. Depending on your budget, I could recommend staying near Jalan Mangga Dua Besar VII, or thereabouts. You should be able to check the room out beforehand, and maybe even negotiate a better price with the staff, depending on whether or not they've already had their kretek (clove cigarette) break.

Well, the average room for those who really need to save is 125,000 rupiah. After hours of walking of without a map, I found one for 60,000 and it has a bathroom inside the room, plus breakfast. Which is how I managed to have an epic stay in Balinese heaven. (KUTA).